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Senior-Artist-in-Residence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\"Anida<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

M.F.A. Performance, School of the Art Institute Chicago
B.F.A. Graphic Design, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Email: anida@uw.edu<\/a>
Phone: 425-352-2393
Mailing Box: 358530, 18115 Campus Way NE, Bothell WA 98011
Website: Anida Yoeu Ali<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teaching<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

My work as a multimedia\/interdisciplinary artist, diasporic scholar, and community activist are interconnected components that find their way into my teaching. Indeed, my pedagogy \u2013 which reflects a career-long commitment to multiple disciplinary spaces and engagement with diverse geographic places \u2013 is rooted in the idea that knowledge acquisition involves the creative process. I believe the classroom is a fertile environment for leadership skills, critical thinking, personal and interpersonal development, and a communication tool to help students tap into a sense of purpose in the larger world. I encourage my students to consider themselves as artists in my classroom. As artists, their creativity can give rise to a critical consciousness where they become agents of change who can respond and shape the world they live in instead of merely functioning and adapting to it. That\u2019s why I also urge my students to take their work and ideas outside my classroom, exploring ways to creatively engage public spaces outside of the classroom environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not only do I try to instill in my students an individualized artistic sensibility; I endeavor in my classes to mentor and create a community of artists. Such community-building takes the form of group assignments, which offer students a chance to participate and engage with classmates and find commonalities through guided and active cooperation. I also connect students to diverse communities by accessing my extensive networks as an artist\/activist; I frequently bring local, national, and international speakers into direct conversation with my students via in-person visits and SKYPE interviews. Such pedagogical \u201ccommunity organizing\u201d is not limited to the classroom; I engage my students via other contexts by organizing fieldtrips to local museums, artists\u2019 studios, and urban\/rural sites in order to show them the possibilities of local activism and, depending on the venue, the impacts of larger forces such as globalization and migration. Again, the classroom is a portal to connect my students with larger struggles and experiences beyond campus walls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, integral to my arts pedagogy is fostering a sense of spontaneity, improvisation, and creative risk taking. Inside the classroom, we engage in micro-workshops where the classroom is transformed into reimagined spaces for creative engagement. Sometimes chairs and tables are pushed aside to better adapt the room to movement and improvisational exercises. 足彩app哪个是正规的se micro-workshops range from physical calisthenics that boost energies to vocal drills that prepare them to speak out loud, to group memory exercises that activate laughter, joy, and nostalgia. Drawing on my experiences as a movement artist and performer, my teaching methodology acknowledges the body as a catalyst to inspire questions, content, and composition. My classroom becomes a portal for critical engagement whereby students can creatively transform \u201cheavy\u201d abstract concepts into their own personal stakes. I, then, urge students to take creative risks by stepping outside their comfort zones and push them towards experimenting with forms, mediums, and ideas that open them to new possibilities of expression and conceptualization.  By allowing students to find conceptual relevance through a creative catalyst, meaning is generated in their own language and within their worldview. My courses always extend beyond the classroom walls, as students utilize their bodies to engage in personal, political, and cultural issues that reflect an urgency within the contemporary moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recent Courses Taught<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

MCS472A&B Global Media Lab (10 credits)
BISCLA 380 Contemporary \u2018Muslim\u2019 Artists
BISIA 383 Performance for Non-Dancers
BISIA 319 Interdisciplinary Arts (Core Class)
BISIA 330 Arts-in-Practice
BIS209 足彩app哪个是正规的 Art of Spoken Word Poetry
BISIA 383 Global Agitation: Art & Activism
BISCLA 380 Southeast Asian Hip-Hop and Urban Arts<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Artistic Research<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

How can we engage in storytelling that moves people towards claiming their stake in the world? How can narrative works relocate and redefine the peripheral as a place for engagement? Can limitations be turned into the aesthetic basis for powerful works of art?  足彩app哪个是正规的se questions serve as the critical research framework for much of my artistic works. I believe merely expressing the human condition is not enough. Expression must be combined with engagement to fuel public discourse on critical social issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As an artist, my role is to ask questions and offer an experience that challenges people to think just a little deeper. Through my performances, I offer not only a way of seeing but also a way of experiencing ideas. I utilize an interdisciplinary approach to artmaking. My installation and performance works investigate the artistic, spiritual, and political collisions of a hybrid transnational identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Solo Exhibitions & Performances (selected)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n